9780761189817-0761189815-Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

ISBN-13: 9780761189817
ISBN-10: 0761189815
Edition: 1
Author: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780761189817
ISBN-10: 0761189815
Edition: 1
Author: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (ISBN-13: 9780761189817 and ISBN-10: 0761189815), written by authors Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen, was published by Workman Publishing Company in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Psychotherapy, TA & NLP (Psychology & Counseling, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Psychotherapy, TA & NLP, Psychology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Psychotherapy, TA & NLP books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?

Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.

Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.


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